Saturday, July 21, 2012

a day to fill the cracks

I have been needing a day off. A day to fill up the cracks in my faith.
Off from work, from family stress, from financial pressure, from life in general.
Sometimes I get too entrenched in it all.

So today is that day. Actually, a combo of yesterday morning and today that I have managed to eek out. A day just to soak and read the Word and pray and worship and let the Holy Spirit heal my soul and minister to my spirit.

Chris Sligh on Pandoa provides the backdrop.
My old Living Bible as the Meat.
My laptop as an apply conduit of God's Grace.

I'm reading 1 Thessalonians and more.
Verses that speak to this weary heart...

1:5 "For when we brought you the Good News, it was not just meaningless chatter to you; no, you listened with great interest. What we told you produced a POWERFUL EFFECT upon you, for the Holy Spirit gave you great and full assurance that what we said was true. And you know that our very lives were further proof to you of the truth of our message."

1:10 "And they speak of how you are looking forward to the return of God's Son from heaven-Jesus, whom God brought back to life- and He is our only Savior from God's terrible anger against sin."

2:4 "For we speak as messengers from God, trusted by Him to tell the truth; we change His message not one bit to suit the taste of those who hear it; for we serve God alone, who examines our hearts' deepest thoughts."

2:7-8 "But we were as gentle among you as a mother feeding and caring for her own dear children. We loved you dearly- so dearly that we gave you not only God's message, but our own lives too."

2:11-12 "We talked to you as a father to his own children...pleading with you, encouraging you and even demanding that your daily lives should not embarrass God, but bring joy to Him who invited you into His Kingdom to share His glory. And we will never stop thanking God for this: that when we preached to you, you didn't think of the words that we spoke as being just our own, but you accepted what we said as the very Word of God- which, of course, it was- and it changed your lives when you believed it."

2:18 "...but Satan stopped us."

2:19-20 "For what is it we live for, that gives us hope and joy and is our proud reward and crown? It is you! Yes, you will bring us much joy as we stand together before our Lord Jesus Christ when He comes back again. For you are our trophy and joy."

3:2-3 "I decided...to send Timothy...to visit you to strengthen your faith and encourage you, and to keep you from becoming fainthearted in all the troubles you were going through. (But of course you know that such troubles are a part of God's plan for us Christians..)."

3: 10 "For night and day we pray on and on for you, asking God to let us see you again, to fill up any little cracks there may yet be in your faith."

3:12 "And may the Lord make your love to grow and overflow to each other and to everyone else, just as our love does toward you. This will result in your hearts being made strong, sinless, and holy by God our Father, so that you may stand before Him guiltless on that day when our Lord Jesus Christ returns with all those who belong to Him."

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My Fav Quotes & Sayin's

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. -John Piper

Amor vincit omnia...Love Conquers All

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living. -Jim Elliot "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." -C. S. Lewis Don't waste your life trying to look good. Spend your life making God look good. -John Piper

Dreams carried around in one's heart for years, if they are dreams that have God's approval, have a way of suddenly materializing. -Catherine Marshall

The dumb get dumber! -Benny McQua

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read at all. -Mark Twain

According to the burden that grieves you, is the cry to God that comes from you! -Richard Crisco

Show me your friends; I'll show you your destiny. -Richard Crisco

You teach what you know and reproduce who you are. -Richard Crisco

"If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd."-Elisabeth ElliotOnly he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes. -Dietrick Bonhoeffer

Freedom should be seen not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to please to do what is right. -Peter Marshall

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. -Jane Austen